Corrida de novillos, a bull-fight with young bulls

P. 99, 1. I. Le dieu Vulcain. Playfully, of course.

P. 100, 1. 4. L'Escurial. The great monaster}--palace of the Kings of Spain. It was built, according to storj-, by Philip the Second, in the form of a gridiron, as a votive offering for the victor}^ of St. Quentin. This battle was fought on the day of St. Lawrence, who suffered on a gridiron. It has a famous mausoleum for the Kings and Queen s of Spain, and once possessed a magnificent library. It is thirty miles from Madrid, and in a lonely situation.

1. 16. Anniversaire patronal. This seems to mean the Saint's day, on which the capture had taken place in 1492, not the day of the month.

12,6 QUI net' s LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER.

1. 23, Haschich. Indian hemp, prcpaied and used to induce a form of intoxication. The Alhambra, or ' Red Palace ' of the Moorish kings of Granada, hardly needs description, after the numerous pictures and imitations of it.

P. 101, 1. 6. Almanzor was actually an Arabian caliph of the eighth century, but Quinet, writing loosely and with his head full of Granada, was doubtless thinking of the Moorish Paladin, who appears in one of Î^Ille. de Scudéri's Romances, and in Dryden's Conquest of Granada.

1. 12. Baylen, famous for the capitulation of the French gênerai, Dupont, in the Peninsular War.

1. 22. Gonzalve de Cordoue. Gonzalvo of Cordova (1453-1515), the ' Great Captain,' who, at the end of the fifteenth century, gave the Spanish infantry the réputation they kept so long.

1. 36. Salvator Rosa, a celebrated Italian paipter of wild landscapes.

P. 102, 1. 14. Embosser appears in the dictionaries as a naval term, 'to moor broadside on;' but this does not seem to make much sensé hère, It appears to be connected with bosse, ' hump,' and thus expresses picturesquely enough the round-shouldered appearance of a man who wraps himself in a sleeveless mantle or cloak, and has to keep his arms folded.

1. 25. Escopette, a kind of carbine. Tromblon, a blunderbuss. But T never saw a rifled blunderbuss.

P. 103, 1. 27. Posada, ' inn.'

1. 32. Oasis. The English idiom, 'a ivilderness of columns,' may suggest a blunder on Quinet's part. But an oasis is distinguished by its clusters of straight palm-trees, and this is probably what he meant.

1. 36. Astolphe, Marquis de Custine (1793-185 7), wrote several books of travel, which hâve considérable literary merit.

1.37. Paire une pointe is to 'make an excursion,' 'scour the country.'

P. 104, 1. 4. A pun, which cannot be preserved in English.